Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Notes on the Contributors ix
5. Introduction: The Intellectual History and Contemporary Significance of the Arab Novel in English 1
6. Part I: Constellations: Modernity, Empire and Postcoloniality
7. 1. The Rise of the Arab American Novel: 39
8. 2. Beyond Orientalism: 63
9. 3. The Incestuous (Post)Colonial: 82
10. 4. Drinking, Gambling and Making Merry: 106
11. 5. Mobile Belonging? The Global “Given” in the Work of Etel Adnan 127
12. 6. Burning, Memory and Postcolonial Agency in Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits 149
13. 7. Zenga Zenga and Bunga Bunga: 171
14. Part II: Force-fields: Ethnic Ties and Transnational Solidarities
15. 8. In Search of Andalusia: 197
16. 9. Europe and Its Others: : 217
17. 10. Space, Embodiment, Identity and Resistance in the Novels of Fadia Faqir 246
18. 11. The Arab Canadian Novel and the Rise of Rawi Hage 269
19. 12. The Arab Australian Novel: 298
20. 13. Identity, Transformation and the Anglophone Arab Novel 321
21. 14. Rabih Alameddine’s I, the Divine: 339
22. Part III: Prospects/Challenges: Authority, Pedagogy and the Market Industry
23. 15. Invisible Ethnic: 363
24. 16. The Challenges of Orientalism: 386
25. 17. Teaching from Cover to Cover: 405
26. 18. Perils and Pitfalls of Marketing the Arab Novel in English 426
27. Bibliography 447
28. Index 483